LOS ANGELES, June 12 — With protests against racism sweeping the United States, two new films from Spike Lee place contemporary violence against African-Americans in its modern historical context, going as far back as the Vietnam War. Da 5 Bloods, out today on Netflix, follows a fictional group...
Friday, 12 Jun 2020 09:17 PM MYTLOS ANGELES, June 12 — With protests against racism sweeping the United States, two new films from Spike Lee place contemporary violence against African-Americans in its modern historical context, going as far back as the Vietnam War.out today on Netflix, follows a fictional group of black soldiers who risked their lives in Vietnam even as civil rights protests and race riots broke out in their home cities during the late 1960s.
Its release follows more than two weeks of mass demonstrations over the death of George Floyd, a handcuffed black man killed in custody in Minneapolis on May 25, and criticism of heavy-handed policing of the protests. In the war itself, a disproportionately high number of black US soldiers were sent to fight — and die.
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